Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-03
ABOUT THE EDITOR.
Bill Nye Cautions the Public About
the Man OF the Quili---Bob Burdette
Coming to Moline--JOke on a Peoria

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the Man OF the Quili---Bob Burdette
Coming to Moline--Joke on Peoria |
journalist.
DON'T FOOL WITH THE EDITOR"
Bill Nye has said concerning a much
abused representative of humble and
plodding fraternity: Don't attempt 10
cheat an editor or to play him false in
any way. Cheat the minister, cheat the |
doctor, cheat anybody and everybody,
but if you have any regard for future
consequences, don't fool with an editor.
You will be put up for Office sometime,
or want some public favor for yourself or
some of your friends. and when your luck
is "a thing of beauty and Joy forever
the editor will open upon you and knock
your air-castle into cooked hat the first
fire. He'll subdue you and then you'll
cuss yourself for driveling idiot. go
hire some one to knock you down, and
then kick you for falling"
BURDETTE COMING.
Bob Burdette. at one time connected
with the editorial department of the Bur-
lingtou Hoaokeye and now one of Ameri-
cas- representative humorists, is to lecture
in Moline, December 5, and Kiner, an.
other editor-the Geneseo Nesos man
thus eulogizes him;
Bob Burdette. who is on the lecture
| programme of the Y NJ C. A. of Gene
seo is the Jester of Newspaperdom. He
is the King of Laughter and Tears He
| possesses the power to make men wonder
whether to laugh or cry; and they usually
compromise by doing both at once. He
is breeze fresh blown from the heart of
humanity. If he lives to be hundred
years old. he will still be boy--bu
boy who is seldom still. He looks at all
things rs they are, but through kind of
genial opera glass. He irradiates every
thing he touches with the magic mystery
of his subtle and peculiar genius. Tum-
BILE down before him an old, WORKOUT
cook stove, cracked pitcher, bursted
drum, a dismantled hat, any object ami
mate or inanimate and he will take it
and make you laugh and cry, or cry till
you laugh, at his imperial pleasure. He
used to be a reporter on the Peoria daily
press. So did that other child of genius,
Charley Lambert. So did we. Ali
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR.
The city editor of the Peoria Transcript
writes up a contemporary as follows:
Editor Lambert, of the Saturday E0en-
ing Cal, has oar profoundest sympathy.
For some weeks he has been expeetisg
the arrival of a young man at his house
He was already blessed with girls galore
and wished and confidently expected this
time one who would hand down to pos
terity the ancestral honoIs of the houst
of Lambert He has been consulting
with his friends as to the name the young
ster should bear. But he Is now in thu
/ valley of despair. Wednesday night wa.
a a critical time in the Lambert household
. but Charlie sat in an outside room Sc
renely awaiting the verdict. Soft foot
Is steps were heard. and the nurse locke,
o in at the waiting editor.
,. well, said Charlie, what kind of typ
of American citizen have We this time
Sir" answered the nurse, lit is
l. girl"
e And she smiled.
q Wrong font by the lord Henry wa
=, the emphatic response of the disappoint
ed editor
n And then he went out and smiled